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'Absolute garbage': Ben Shapiro calls out Twitter after Ellie Kemper and 'KKK Princess' trend overnight

Actress Ellie Kemper, best known for her role as Kimmy Schmidt in “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt,” was trending overnight after blue-checks claimed she participated in a KKK beauty pageant back of some sort in 1999 when she was 19-years-old:

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There’s a lot to unpack here, but this old article from The Atlantic on the history of these balls started getting shared first and then the hate directed at Kemper began:

But St. Louis-based journo Austin Kim says he hasn’t found any “KKK connections” to the ball:

“The ball itself is weird and creepy and problematic. But it ain’t KKK”:

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Boy, these sleuths really found her out!

What “absolute garbage” that she’s trending along with “KKK princess”:

And now we have “more Twitter outrage bulls*it”:

Liberal blue-checks were quick to pounce. Some examples:

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https://twitter.com/OpieRadio/status/1399524628922523651

Do they just spin a wheel or something?

https://twitter.com/devincf/status/1399534988450668544

Time to log off, people:

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